Easier for a Camel to Go through the eye of a needle than a Rich Man to Enter Heaven.....

Why does the Bible hate Rich People so much?

I thought I was reading some Pinko Karl Marx manifesto for a moment and not the New Testament.

Can someone enlighten me?

Quoting: Diego Gaultier 3767410

Yes, the bible doesn't hate rich people at all. The bible is a story telling you to focus on God, not earthly things like money. If God is pure love, where does money or rich fit in with that? It just doesn't. Most people who have money are truly focused on their money and that to them is their security. God, our creator, wants us to be focused on him for security. He loves us so much, and wants us to love him not money.

1 Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on. 2 Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the just; he does not resist you.

Easier for a Camel to Go through the eye of a needle than a Rich Man to Enter Heaven.....

Why does the Bible hate Rich People so much?

I thought I was reading some Pinko Karl Marx manifesto for a moment and not the New Testament.

Can someone enlighten me?

Quoting: Diego Gaultier 3767410

Yes, the bible doesn't hate rich people at all. The bible is a story telling you to focus on God, not earthly things like money. If God is pure love, where does money or rich fit in with that? It just doesn't. Most people who have money are truly focused on their money and that to them is their security. God, our creator, wants us to be focused on him for security. He loves us so much, and wants us to love him not money.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17868616

So your god loves me but if i dont accept him as the true god of creation then he will burn me in hell for eternity? Sounds like an egotistical pig if you ask me, esecially since he created satan knowing that he would rebel and then sent him down to live with humanity... Wake up dude.

1 Come now, rich ones, weep and howl for your hardships coming on. 2 Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their poison will be a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. You heaped treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the just; he does not resist you.

Quoting: dschis1000

this too. the focus should be on God.

19 Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. 20 But lay up treasures in Heaven for yourselves, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

And yet people continue to give 10% of their earnings to "Churchs" all of the time. Lol.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5739241

See brother god needs money to pay for food in heaven, he cant afford to buy all of that spaghetti and cake for everyone unless people pay him money, plus the church leaders need money for xbox games so they can bring kids down to their basements to "play" with!

Genesis 132 Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.

Genesis 2435 The LORD has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, and camels and donkeys. 36 My master's wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.

1 Timothy 610 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

'It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled".Mark Twain

Easier for a Camel to Go through the eye of a needle than a Rich Man to Enter Heaven.....

Why does the Bible hate Rich People so much?

I thought I was reading some Pinko Karl Marx manifesto for a moment and not the New Testament.

Can someone enlighten me?

Quoting: Diego Gaultier 3767410

Yes, the bible doesn't hate rich people at all. The bible is a story telling you to focus on God, not earthly things like money. If God is pure love, where does money or rich fit in with that? It just doesn't. Most people who have money are truly focused on their money and that to them is their security. God, our creator, wants us to be focused on him for security. He loves us so much, and wants us to love him not money.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17868616

So your god loves me but if i dont accept him as the true god of creation then he will burn me in hell for eternity? Sounds like an egotistical pig if you ask me, esecially since he created satan knowing that he would rebel and then sent him down to live with humanity... Wake up dude.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25531932

Wake up, young whipper snapper. Look up to your creator, and tell him the crap that's spewing from your mouth and try to save yourself from eternal death.

I'll take a stab at this where it may actually make sense.In a preindustrial time, one can only become wealthy using others to profit from, and abuse by way of taking a greater share of the profit of their physical labor.In essence, one becomes rich through overt exploitation and greed over the results.Essentially one became rich only via slavery and abuse and exploitation.You may disagree, but that's likely it, the intentional and avoidable abuse of the unfortunate and disproportionate confiscations of the results of their toil.

And, should anyone care to notice, wealth was no sin in the old testament, but a validation of ones chosen status. The old testament had no problem with enslaving or otherwise exploiting non chosen tribes or resources for the enrichment of the chosen ones.Yet another example of significant disparities where one cannot simultaneously celebrate the domination of others with the requested lack of concern of luxury and control of others in this life.

Easier for a Camel to Go through the eye of a needle than a Rich Man to Enter Heaven.....

Why does the Bible hate Rich People so much?

I thought I was reading some Pinko Karl Marx manifesto for a moment and not the New Testament.

Can someone enlighten me?

Quoting: Diego Gaultier 3767410

because most of them are stuck to money and stealing it from others. thou shalt not covet, that shalt not steal etc. the making of the poor thru shit wages etc all

The actual Lord's Prayer Given by Jesus 2000 years ago.

"MY SPIRIT, YOU ARE OMNIPOTENT. YOUR NAME IS HOLY. MAY YOUR REALM BE INCARNATE IN ME. MAY YOUR POWER REVEAL ITSELF WITHIN ME, ON EARTH AND IN THE HEAVEN. GIVE ME TODAY MY DAILY BREAD, AND THUS, LET ME RECOGNIZE MY TRANSGRESSIONS AND ERRORS, AND I SHALL RECOGNIZE THE TRUTH. AND DO NOT LEAD ME INTO TEMPTATION AND CONFUSION, BUT DELIVER ME FROM ERROR. FOR YOURS IS THE REALM WITHIN ME AND THE POWER AND THE KNOWLEDGE FOREVER,AMEN.

Easier for a Camel to Go through the eye of a needle than a Rich Man to Enter Heaven.....

Why does the Bible hate Rich People so much?

I thought I was reading some Pinko Karl Marx manifesto for a moment and not the New Testament.

Can someone enlighten me?

Quoting: Diego Gaultier 3767410

Yes, the bible doesn't hate rich people at all. The bible is a story telling you to focus on God, not earthly things like money. If God is pure love, where does money or rich fit in with that? It just doesn't. Most people who have money are truly focused on their money and that to them is their security. God, our creator, wants us to be focused on him for security. He loves us so much, and wants us to love him not money.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17868616

So your god loves me but if i dont accept him as the true god of creation then he will burn me in hell for eternity? Sounds like an egotistical pig if you ask me, esecially since he created satan knowing that he would rebel and then sent him down to live with humanity... Wake up dude.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25531932

Wake up, young whipper snapper. Look up to your creator, and tell him the crap that's spewing from your mouth and try to save yourself from eternal death.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17868616

I have a hard time worshipping a god who lets ghandi burn in hell while pedophile pastors run his church...If that was the true heaven then that is the easiest thing ive ever heard of, your telling me that you can be hitler and make it into heaven as long as you repent your sins and accept christ? While anyone outside of christianity is completely fucked for eternity?

false idol worship... materialism.. sell all that you have then give the money to the poor and follow me....see the giving up of material worship in of itself is the godly act.. Materialism is Idol worship...

Easier for a Camel to Go through the eye of a needle than a Rich Man to Enter Heaven.....

Why does the Bible hate Rich People so much?

I thought I was reading some Pinko Karl Marx manifesto for a moment and not the New Testament.

Can someone enlighten me?

Quoting: Diego Gaultier 3767410

A person who gets rich before they know God will never turn to God,They never ask for Gods help, they never suffer really not enough where they have to look to a higher power. A person who has already found God and knows God then they become rich will most likely not turn from God and will use the Money for charity, and basic things they need. they wont go crazy and sin, sin, sin. so its ok to get rich just dont put money ahead of God. so thats why its easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, becasue the only way to heaven is through Jesus and you have to have faith.and worship God not Money.

Easier for a Camel to Go through the eye of a needle than a Rich Man to Enter Heaven.....

Why does the Bible hate Rich People so much?

I thought I was reading some Pinko Karl Marx manifesto for a moment and not the New Testament.

Can someone enlighten me?

Quoting: Diego Gaultier 3767410

The bible didn't hate rich people, your presumption made it so. With thousands of verses, Bible can be interpreted any way you wished. When you expected to see a Karl Marx manifesto, you'll only read verses supporting that view point and discard anything contradicting.

While the verses you read seem to suggest being rich is a undesirable, the contradicting verses below even suggest God gave riches to Solomon:

2Ch 1:12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I (God) will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.1Ki 10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.

The bible does not hate rich people. Rich is not the problem, but trusting only in the riches is the problem.

Mr 10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!

18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

20 And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.

21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.

23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!

25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?

Easier for a Camel to Go through the eye of a needle than a Rich Man to Enter Heaven.....

Why does the Bible hate Rich People so much?

I thought I was reading some Pinko Karl Marx manifesto for a moment and not the New Testament.

Can someone enlighten me?

Quoting: Diego Gaultier 3767410

Yes, the bible doesn't hate rich people at all. The bible is a story telling you to focus on God, not earthly things like money. If God is pure love, where does money or rich fit in with that? It just doesn't. Most people who have money are truly focused on their money and that to them is their security. God, our creator, wants us to be focused on him for security. He loves us so much, and wants us to love him not money.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17868616

So your god loves me but if i dont accept him as the true god of creation then he will burn me in hell for eternity? Sounds like an egotistical pig if you ask me, esecially since he created satan knowing that he would rebel and then sent him down to live with humanity... Wake up dude.